"Faith means wanting God and wanting to want…" — Brennan Manning
"Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else."
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183 Quotes by Brennan Manning
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The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk…
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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us…
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A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
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Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the…
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When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
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May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness,…
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In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
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Jesus hung out with ragamuffins,
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God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
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Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for…
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Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended
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I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For…
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
— Francis of Assisi
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
— Francis of Assisi
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
— Saint Augustine
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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